Police said on Wednesday they had detained a 22-year-old Polish man after he killed one person with an ax at Warsaw University, in an attack the institution described as a "huge tragedy". "Police have ...

Every spring, Japan’s iconic cherry blossoms, or sakura, bloom across the country. As of May 7, 2025, the season has ended in most regions, except for Hokkaido and parts of Tohoku, where many areas ...

A university in Scotland has returned ancestral remains to indigenous Ainu people of Japan that were kept in its museum for over a century. The skulls of three Ainu people were given back to ...

The remains were donated to the university in 1913 by anthropologist Neil Gordon Munro, a Scottish-born physician and Edinburgh graduate. Dr Munro worked as director of the General Hospital in ...

members of the Ainu community held a traditional service at the university before the formal transfer of the skulls. The Ainu lived in self-governing villages across northern Japan for centuries ...

The skulls of three indigenous Japanese people believed to have lived over 100 years ago have been returned to their descendants by a university ... their return to Japan, the skulls will be ...

Three skulls from Japan that were given to Edinburgh University in 1913 have been returned to the indigenous community where they originated. The remains of the Ainu people - donated by Scottish ...

Following their return to Japan, the skulls will be interred at a memorial site within the Upopoy National Ainu Museum and Park, adhering to Japanese government regulations. Originally donated to the ...

The beauty of this approach is that it operates within the system, while quietly undermining it. It doesn’t dismantle the neoliberal university outright – at least, not yet – but it does create cracks ...

The University of Edinburgh returned three Indigenous skulls to Japan after holding them in its anatomy collection for over a century. The remains belonged to members of the Ainu, an Indigenous ...